Jon

Quote - . And I can't really see how crashing on saving or loading is a card related matter.

Not so long ago that was a possible card related matter that always came up with other software I used (and probably still is). I remember page fault issues when doing things like that in other programs and it was video card related. If a screen is being called up when saving or loading, it definitely can be card related. Even though it might seem like a minor function, there are simultaneous activities in play to make it work and as is often the case it could be the final straw of memory issues or other conflicts. Video cards also use some of the allocated resources of regular RAM for system functions (other than the cheapo cards that always use part of RAM for everything).

Many times people think they have a flawless system because other programs call on the various devices differently and perhaps by luck miss the problem areas. Many times this could be RAM issues as some can have problems that go undetected with most functions. Just happened to me the other day working on a friend's PC. It had worked fine until recently. A clean reinstall was the chosen course of action. But we couldn't get Windows to finish re-installing. And there were different errors (and sometimes just a reboot and starting all over again), none pointing to the memory. I swapped out the memory sticks with two new Corsairs and the problem went away. I've read many times in the past of people coming to similar conclusions with other software, so I never rule out system issues, especially when others are having few or no problems with software.

By the way, I have an older ASUS (ATI) Radeon 9800XT and I've never had problems in Vue. And yes, sometimes older drivers are better. I also do not use any virus scan software on my Vue PC and have a fixed size for virtual memory. And all power management is set to always on and screen savers are disabled (all problems with various software in the past).